Mark Biek's questions

I've been trying to install gitlab-ce from the Omnibus packages for Ubuntu 16.04 (GNU/Linux 4.6.5-x86_64-linode71 x86_64) and I'm completely stuck.

Issue #1

All of the docs say to run the command sudo apt-get install gitlab-ce but I always get a Unable to locate package gitlab-ce error.

Doing an sudo apt search gitlab shows that there is a package just called gitlab so I'm assuming the docs are wrong and I'm supposed to install that.

Issue #2

Installation runs normally until it gets to the point of doing the nginx setup and then it fails with the following error:

Creating config file /etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab.mydomain.net with new version
cp: cannot create regular file '/etc/nginx/sites-available/gitlab.mydomain.net': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package gitlab (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 

I'm not doing anything special with my install.

Can anyone give me any hints?

Update 1

I didn't realize that there was a stock gitlab package in the Ubuntu so that explains at least part of my problem.

Just to clarify, I did run through the full instructions on the about page so I've added the gitlab-ce repo to my apt sources:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261 Aug 31 16:03 gitlab_gitlab-ce.list

The contents of the above are

# this file was generated by packages.gitlab.com for
# the repository at https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce

deb https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ xenial main
deb-src https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu/ xenial main

I also see the gitlab source being referenced when I do an apt-get update:

Hit:10 https://packages.gitlab.com/gitlab/gitlab-ce/ubuntu xenial InRelease

I've run sudo apt-get update and the gitlab-ce package isn't there. I wonder if it's something about my system that isn't compatible with the packages?

Update 2

Looks like it's an system architecture problem.

Despite the fact that running uname -a shows Linux li424-65 4.6.5-x86_64-linode71, I get the following error if I try to install the .deb manually.

package architecture (amd64) does not match system (i386)

This is a Linode VM so I bet it has something to do with that.

This is a new install of the Mindtouch Core on Ubuntu 10.04. I've been following the Installation Guide on the Mindtouch community site.

When I try to start the dekiwiki service, it crashes with the following error:

** (/var/www/dekiwiki/bin/mindtouch.host.exe:14465): WARNING **: The following assembly referenced from /var/www/dekiwiki/bin/mindtouch.core.dll could not be loaded:
     Assembly:   System.Web.Routing    (assemblyref_index=2)
     Version:    3.5.0.0
     Public Key: 31bf3856ad364e35
The assembly was not found in the Global Assembly Cache, a path listed in the MONO_PATH environment variable, or in the location of the executing assembly (/var/www/dekiwiki/bin).


** (/var/www/dekiwiki/bin/mindtouch.host.exe:14465): WARNING **: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Routing, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies.

Unhandled Exception: MindTouch.Dream.DreamAbortException: HTTP Status: InternalError(500)

Server stack trace:
  at MindTouch.Dream.DreamHostService+<StartService>d__68.MoveNext () [0x00000]
  at MindTouch.Tasking.Coroutine.Continue () [0x00000]

Exception rethrown at [0]:

  at MindTouch.Dream.DreamHostService+<StartService>d__68.MoveNext () [0x00000]
  at MindTouch.Tasking.Coroutine.Continue () [0x00000]

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_EventArgs (object,System.EventArgs)
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_EventArgs (object,System.EventArgs)
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_EventArgs (object,System.EventArgs)
  at (wrapper delegate-invoke) System.MulticastDelegate:invoke_void_object_EventArgs (object,System.EventArgs)
  at System.Collections.Generic.List`1[MindTouch.Tasking.TaskTimerFactory].AddEnumerable (IEnumerable`1 ) [0x00000]
  at System.Collections.Generic.List`1[MindTouch.Tasking.TaskTimerFactory]..ctor (IEnumerable`1 ) [0x00000]
  at System.Linq.Enumerable.ToArray[TaskTimerFactory] (IEnumerable`1 source) [0x00000]
  at MindTouch.Tasking.TaskTimerFactory.get_Factories () [0x00000]
  at MindTouch.Tasking.TaskTimerFactory.ShutdownAll () [0x00000]
  at MindTouch.Dream.DreamConsoleHost.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

I've double-checked and I've got Mono 2.10 installed and the System.Web.Routing assembly is definitely there, Mindtouch just isn't finding it.

Any ideas?

I have a number of sites in IIS that I'd like to allow direct access to people in a certain subnet, then require basic authentication for everyone else.

Here's the exact same functionality I want in Apache:

    <Directory "/var/www/mydir">
            AuthName "Access Test Site"
            AuthType Basic
            AuthUserFile "/var/www/passwordfile"
            require valid-user

            Satisfy any
            Order Deny,Allow
            Deny from all
            Allow from 10.0.1
    </Directory>

I'd love to be able to do this on IIS6 and IIS7.5 but I'll take one or the other if I have to.

What's the best way to check if a volume is mounted in a Bash script?

What I'd really like is a method that I can use like this:

if <something is mounted at /mnt/foo> 
then
   <Do some stuff>
else
   <Do some different stuff>
fi

How would I go about creating a cronjob that runs at the following times every day:

• 3:00am
• 3:50am
• 9:00am
• 9:50am

I tried this but it doesn't seem to be working:

00,50    3,9    *    *    *    /usr/bin/something.sh

The Solution

After much poking around in the logs, it turns out the issue was another script higher up in the crontab was segfaulting so my crontab entry never ran at all.

I disabled those scripts and my entry ran just fine. Also, it turns out that the syntax above is perfectly valid.